Activism Quotes · Page 6

Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.

— Christine Quinn

Activism and art do go hand in hand, but I am an artist and an 'artivist' within that.

— Kiersey Clemons

“If not you, who? If not now, when? The worst thing well-meaning people can do is simply let things remain as they…

— Christine Pope

Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.

— William Baldwin

I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others.

— Nelson Mandela

Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit.

— Robert M. La Follette, Sr

To save my child, I'd rather go hungry. I got all of Ethiopia inside of me.

— Neneh Cherry

My activism always existed. My art gave me the platform to do something about the activism.

— Harry Belafonte

We've got the science, we've had the debate. The moral imperative is on the table. Great creativity is needed to take it…

— Andy Hobsbawm

“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man…

— Martin Luther King Jr

When you stand with the outcasts, you stand with Jesus, and when you despise the outcast, you despise Jesus, as well. Becoming…

— Mel White

In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as…

— Camille Paglia

Being an Image Activist simply means to be in action of supporting, celebrating and creating honest images of a group you care…

— Michaela Angela Davis

For me, policy is best when connected to the roots, and roots are best when connected to policy. So I encourage you…

— Simone Campbell

“We can sit in our corners mute forever while our sisters and our selves are distorted and destroyed, while our earth is…

— Audre Lorde

Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism,…

— Angela Davis

“The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change…

— Leonard Bernstein

There's a reason people pause their lives to engage in political activism and pressure their local political leaders. Because as a whole,…

— Rachel Maddow

“Beyond the Nature of Truth (The Sonnet) Do you realize how serious the situation is, Are you aware of the lives ruined…

— Abhijit Naskar

“We write history with our feet and with our presence and our collective voice and vision. And yet, of course, everything in…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Think about it: virtually every atrocity in the history of humankind was enabled by a populace that turned away from a reality…

— Melanie Joy

We need to reshape the movement as one of grassroots activists, and not 'professional activists' who populate the seemingly endless number of…

— Gary L. Francione

“I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day,…

— Og Mandino

I don't see myself as an activist. I understand that people, with me doing 'Satyameva Jayate,' for example, they will feel that…

— Aamir Khan

When it comes to engaging and influencing culture, too many Christians think too highly of political activism.

— Tullian Tchividjian

“Justice names both the wound and the weapon, even when they reside in the same person.”

— Jamie Arpin-Ricci

My acting and activism go hand-in-hand, and they really support one another.

— Nicole Maines

In my mind, there's no logical conclusion that can be drawn, other than that I was fired for my activism.

— Chris Kluwe

“I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.”

— Nadine Gordimer

If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.

— Michael Jackson

You don't look in the eyes of a carrot seed quite in the way you do a panda bear, but it's very…

— Cary Fowler

You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.

— Fady Joudah

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

— Mike McCurry

“We felt as though we had a responsibility to do something about it. So, we did.”

— Xiuhtezcatl Martinez

By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.

— Alex Steffen

“Forget professional,” Penny said. “Tonight, you and I are just man and woman like Adam and Eve, Tarzan and Jane.”

— Shafter Bailey

Take those kids and raise them up, teach them how to drink out of a righteous cup.

— James Brown

My activism was, and is, unknown, unannounced, but somehow effective.

— Eric Burdon

The students wanted to speak to the government, and the police answered with bullets.

— Vusi Mahlasela